Firm analysis

Morses Club PLC complaint analysis

A public analysis page covering published Financial Ombudsman decisions involving Morses Club PLC, including outcome context, product mix, complaint themes, and representative cases.

Page summary

352 published decisions involving Morses Club PLC, with product mix, upheld-rate context, complaint themes, precedent signals, and representative cases.

Published decisions

352

Firm-specific decision volume in the public corpus

Upheld rate

59.7%

210 upheld decisions

Latest published decision 09 Nov 2023

Published decisions

352

Firm-specific decision volume in the public corpus

Upheld rate

59.7%

210 upheld decisions

Leading product

Consumer Credit

333 decisions

Leading complaint theme

Affordability Assessment Failure

128 tagged decisions

Morses Club PLC at a glance

Morses Club PLC appears in 352 published decisions in this corpus. 59.7% of those decisions were upheld, which gives a public view of how often complaints involving this firm ended in a fully upheld outcome in the final published set.

Consumer Credit is the firm’s clearest product exposure in the published decisions, with 333 decisions and an upheld rate of 60.7%.

  • Latest active year in the published data: 2023 (41 decisions)
  • Most common complaint theme: Affordability Assessment Failure
  • Most common precedent signal: Conc

Volume and outcome trajectory

Morses Club PLC's decision trail runs from 2017 to 2023. That range gives enough public history to see whether complaint exposure has been broad-based or concentrated into certain years.

In the latest year represented here, Morses Club PLC appeared in 41 published decisions with an upheld rate of 63.4%.

  • 2023: 41 decisions, 63.4% upheld
  • 2022: 173 decisions, 55.5% upheld
  • 2021: 91 decisions, 61.5% upheld
  • 2020: 37 decisions, 83.8% upheld
  • 2019: 4 decisions, 25.0% upheld

Themes, products, and precedent signals

Affordability Assessment Failure is the strongest complaint-theme signal tied to Morses Club PLC in the published decisions. In this corpus, those themes are the most stable public proxy for complaint “type”.

Conc, Prin are the most visible precedent signals in the firm’s published decisions. That gives extra context on the rules and fairness arguments appearing most often around the firm.

  • Consumer Credit: 333 decisions
  • Second complaint theme: Delay In Claim Handling
  • Second precedent signal: Prin

Representative cases

Recent published decisions in this slice

5 examples shown

DRN-421343409 Nov 2023Not upheld

Morses Club PLC · Consumer Credit

DRN-4213434 The complaint Mr M complains that Morses Club PLC irresponsibly gave him a fixed sum loan agreement he couldn’t afford to repay. What happened In October 2022, Mr M applied for a personal loan with Morses. He borrowed £980 which was to be repaid by 52 weekly repayments of £36.7... (2 pages)

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DRN-422592307 Nov 2023Not upheld

Morses Club PLC · Consumer Credit

DRN-4225923 The complaint Mrs H complains that Morses Club PLC irresponsibly gave her a fixed sum loan agreement she couldn’t afford to repay. What happened Mrs H applied for a loan with Morses in September 2022. The loan was for £300. Mrs H was required to make 39 weekly repayments of £14... (2 pages)

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DRN-422601701 Sept 2023Upheld

Morses Club PLC · Consumer Credit

DRN-4226017 The complaint Miss C complains that Morses Club PLC lent to her irresponsibly and without carrying out proper affordability checks. What happened Between April 2016 and October 2017 Morses Club approved five loans for Miss C. However, the dispute about the first four loans has ... (3 pages)

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DRN-429455318 Aug 2023Upheld

Morses Club PLC · Consumer Credit

DRN-4294553 The complaint Mrs G complains that Morses Club PLC (Morses) didn’t help or assist her when she informed it that she had become ill. She says Morses didn’t listen and instead kept trying to collect payment towards the loan. Mrs G says the loan account has now defaulted which she... (6 pages)

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DRN-416804026 Jul 2023Not upheld

Morses Club PLC · Consumer Credit

DRN-4168040 The complaint Miss A complains that Morses Club PLC (“Morses”) mis-sold her a loan because she wanted to pay monthly but was told initially payments would need to be made weekly. She says she agreed to pay £120 per month. However, she later discovered that paying monthly could ... (5 pages)

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